Don’t go to the grave with life unused.
BOBBY BOWDENA better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
More Bobby Bowden Quotes
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We would play Miami and lose by one point on a missed field goal, and it would knock us out of the National Championship.
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When I go after something, I go after it hard. It has always been that way. I don’t know. It’s in my blood.
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To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can’t explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
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There was no alcohol and no smoking at our house. That was the way a Bowden was supposed to live. My dad always told me to represent the Bowden name in a respectful manner.
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I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
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I’m praying for a misdemeanor
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If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.
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Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.
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That’s not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It’s prepared them. I’ve never felt like you could develop character without adversity.
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Something has to happen that you can’t coach.
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I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
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As good as we were, we didn’t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed kicks.
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Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.
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That boy don’t know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don’t know the meaning of a lot of words.
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A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
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